Special Effects

3-D glasses frame and bloat and supersede –
make a flat screen flame and float and shoot and bleed –
conjure, through frail plastic, scenes that flabbergast:
allow computer graphics an immeasurable license
to tart up and preen; erupt into sharp simulacra –

never quite as haunting as a plain organic human dream –
but which, for startled moments, can infuse imagination
with a sudden shocking surreality: apply the sort of paint job
frightened women of a certain age will sometimes use
as guise. Sadness lies in our contaminated eyes.

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